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An insurer's nightmare: A high profile prospective business partner is ready to sign a multi-million-dollar deal. As you finalize the arrangements during a tour of ...

By Ben P. Rosenfield | Updated on June 30, 2001

An insurer’s nightmare: A high profile prospective business partner is ready to sign a multi-million-dollar deal. As you finalize the arrangements during a tour of the home office, your visitor sees an employee viewing pictures from a, shall we say, inappropriate-during-business-hours Web site. A mere glimpse is more than enough to dissuade the would-be partner from signing the paperwork, and he walks out-along with a lot of potential revenues.

There are paths to enlightenment and roads to ruin on the Net. It’s easy to blame the people who put the content out there-but assuming it’s legal stuff, it enjoys First Amendment protection. As is the case with freedom of speech issues, it’s the viewer’s right-and responsibility-to view or bypass any material that might be objectionable. And while office policy doesn’t ordinarily trump the Constitution, management may establish any guidelines they wish regarding use of company equipment-in this situation, that means the desktop PC, the software on it (e.g., the Web browser), the Net connection, and so on.

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